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Topic Magazine "A Peek Into the Past" and "Trapped in Tar"

Common Core Standards RI5.2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text. RI5.4 Determine the meaning of academic vocabulary and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a //grade 5 topic or subject area.// RI5.5 Compare and contrast the overall structure(e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts. W5.2 a-e Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

Suggested Student Objectives
 * 1) Students will distinguish between facts and opinions.
 * 2) Students will write a summary.

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts
 * __DK Eyewitness Books: Fossil__ by Paul D. Taylor
 * __When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before Dinosaurs__ by Hannah Bonner
 * __The Fossil Book(Wonders of Creation)__ by Gary Park

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Activities
 * Students will work with a partner and complete the assignment on page 46, Activity Central-"Double Meanings."
 * **Your Turn**-pages 48 and 49.

Assessments 1. Practice Book, page 327 2. Magazine page 47. **Prove It (Fact and Opinion)** 3.Writing Rubric1-4, see TE T133 4. Weekly Tests 28.8-28.9

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